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Book Challenge 2019 - I DID IT!
Hi guys, after tracking all the books I’ve read here from 2013-2016, I completely forgot this whole thing for more than 3 years! Sorry!!
No fear though: I’m back! Even though 2019 has almost ended, I’ll make sure this post correctly reflects the whole of 2019!
Since it’s already the end of October, I do feel like I have some hindsight vision into my reading pace this past year, but before I mention how it actually went, I want to explain my original expectations!
So 2019 for me is the year I’m finishing my Classics Bachelor Degree in July and the year I’ll be studying abroad for one term from September to December (I’m doing two degrees, so I’ll still be doing my English degree after Classics!). So for my reading, I’d expected not to read a lot. Perhaps for my thesis some books on the subjects and of course for English my course work. So my original reading goal was 50 books!
Looking back on these expectations I must say I’ve read a great deal more than I expected! Writing my thesis did include reading a lot of books and other course work had more reading than I thought I would which boosted my challenge in the first half of the year! Of course, I’ve also read quite a lot during the holidays because what else is there to do in the holidays :D?
Regarding my studying abroad experience, I’m reading more than I expected. This is partly because the course work is again much more based on reading books than articles or just parts of book. At the same time, I’m doing less studying than I used to do back home, so I have more time free to do some casual reading. On top of that - since I’m walking everywhere here - I’ve started listening to audiobooks which also adds a couple to the challenge.
So my challenge became 80 books! But I had already surpassed before November, so that’s great! I’d expressed my hopes to read 100 books this year as well, but out of fear of not making that I hadn’t changed my goals. Seeing as of now (mid-November), I’ve already read 93 books I feel confident I can read at least 7 more until a 100, so I’ve changed my goal to read 100 books
The crossed book is the one I’m currently reading, I’ve written reviews for books that have a (x) behind them; the (x) is a link to my Goodreads review!
Update: Today (December 31) I’ve read 135 books so I’ve finished my challenge!! Let’s see where the rest of this year brings me :D!
January
The Oresteia - Ted Hughes (4/5) (x)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes #2) - Arthur Conan Doyle (3/5)
The Suffragettes - Various (3/5)
The Poems of Phillis Wheatley - Philils Wheatley (3/5) (x)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Frederick Douglass (3/5)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself - Harriet Ann Jacobs (4/5)
February
Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram (5/5)
A Disquisition on Government - John C. Calhoen (2/5)
March:
‘s Nachts verdwijnt de wereld - Jaap Robben (Dutch) (4/5)
Public Opinion - Walter Whitman (3/5)
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - David Eagleman (5/5) (x)
Zalig Uiteinde - Viktor Frölke (Dutch) (2/5)
Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy #1) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Frostbite (Vampire Academy #2) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Language and Power - Paul Simpson (3/5)
Language Change: Progress or Decay? - Jean Aitchison (3/5) (x)
Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
April:
Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
A Latin Lover in Ancient Rome - W.R. Johnson (2/5) (x)
The Waste Land - T.S. Eliot (5/5) (x)
Propertius: Elegies - Propertius (ed. Hutchinson) (2/5) (x)
Propertius: A Critical Introduction - J.P. Sullivan (3/5)
Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett (4/5) (x)
Lanny - Max Porter (4/5) (x)
Between the Acts - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)
Roman Propertius and the Reinvention of Elegy - Jeri Blair DeBrohun (1/5)
Yukon Ho! (Calvin and Hobbes #3) - Bill Watterson (4/5) (x)
Emancipating Lincoln - Harold Holzer (3/5)
The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon (1/5) (x)
May:
Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov (5/5) (x)
The Shadow of Callimachus: Studies in the Reception of Hellenistic Poetry at Rome - Richard Hunter (2/5)
Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome - Barbara K. Gold (3/5)
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America - Nancy Isenberg (2/5) (x)
Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War - Burrus M. Carnahan (3/5)
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America - Allen C. Guelzo (3/5)
June:
Apollo, Augustus and the Poets - John F. Miller (2/5) (x)
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam #1) - Margaret Atwood (3/5) (x)
Circe - Madeline Miller (4/5) (x)
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson #1) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Callimachus and his Critics - Alan Cameron (2/5)
July:
Elegies - Propertius (5/5)
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson #2) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
Er was er eens en er was er eens niet - Judith Herzberg (Dutch) (1/5)
Percy Jackson and the Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson #3) - Rick Riordan (reread) (4/5)
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)
Red, White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston (4/5) (x)
The Book of Extraordinary Deaths - Cecilia Ruiz (3/5)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde (4/5)
The Epic of Gilgamesh (3/5)
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare (5/5)
Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson #4) - Rick Riordan (reread) (5/5)
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian (Percy Jackson #5) - Rick Riordan (reread) (5/5)
The Peloponnesian War, Book 2 - Thucydides (3/5)
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde (5/5)
August:
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2) - Sarah J. Maas (reread) (4/5)
Hold Your Own - Kate Tempest (4/5)
Slimy Stuarts - Terry Deary (3/5)
Orlando - Virginia Woolf (5/5) (x)
Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker (3/5) (x)
Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake (4/5)
Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916 - Coll. by Niall MacMonagle (4/5)
Kaas - Willem Elsschot (Dutch) (1/5)
Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti (4/5)
Brand New Ancients - Kate Tempest (3/5)
September:
The Fall of Arthur - J.R.R. Tolkien (3/5)
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (4/5)
The Bees - Carol Ann Duffy (4/5)
Poems - Allen Ginsberg (5/5)
Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy #5) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6) - Richelle Mead (reread) (4/5)
Callirhoe and Caereas - Chariton (3/5)
Bartleby the Scrivener - Herman Melville (3/5)
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville (4/5)
October:
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave - Frederick Douglass (4/5)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself - Harriet Ann Jacobs (2/5)
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green (4/5)
Song of Myself - Walt Whitman (4/5) (x)
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness - Salsa Agnieszka (3/5)
A Thousand Ships - Natalie Haynes (4/5) (x)
Roderick Hudson - Henry James (4/5) (x)
All That She Can See - Carrie Hope Fletcher (3/5) (x)
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (4/5)
All the Crooked Saints - Maggie Stiefvater (3/5) (x)
Daphnis and Chloe - Longus (3/5)
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett (1/5) (x)
November:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (2/5) (x)
Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley (4/5) (x)
First World War Poems from the Front (4/5)
If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio (4/5) (x)
The Republic - Plato (2/5) (x)
Observations - Marianne Moore (5/5)
Poems (1930) - W.H. Auden (2/5) (x)
The Professor’s House - Willa Cather (1/5) (x)
Becoming - Michelle Obama (4/5)
The Outsider - Albert Camus (4/5)
Three Poems - Hannah Sullivan (3/5)
Leucippe and Clitophon - Achilles Tatius (4/5)
The Book of Mirrors - Frieda Hughes (3/5) (x)
Sophist - Plato (5/5) (x)
Selected Poems - E.E. Cummings (4/5)
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry (4/5)
The Beats (A Very Short Introduction) - David Sterrit (4/5)
The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs (5/5)
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (4/5) (x)
Kindred - Octavia E. Butler (4/5)
Remains of Elmet - Ted Hughes (3/5) (x)
Dear Boy - Emily Berry (1/5) (x)
The Merchant of Venice - Willaim Shakespeare (3/5)
Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov (4/5)
How to Be a Woman - Caitlin Moran (2/5) (x)
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America - Bill Bryson (3/5)
December
Tracks - Louise Erdrich (3/5)
Derrida (A Very Short Introduction) - Simon Glendinning (x)
Ariel - Sylvia Plath (5/5)
London Triptych - Jonathan Kemp (3/5)
Two Cures for Love - Wendy Cope (5/5)
Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine (4/5)
Magnus Chase and the Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase #3) - Rick Riordan (4/5)
The Vegetarian - Han Kang (4/5)
Selected Poems - Philip Larkin (3/5)
Kid - Simon Armitage (1/5) (x)
The Children Act - Ian McEwan (4/5)
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (3/5) (x)
The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (4/5) (x)
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs (4/5)
Man met hoed - Lieke Marsman (3/5) (Dutch) (x)
Koffers Zeelucht: Gedichten - Hagar Peeters (Dutch) (4/5)
Selected Poems - Gregory Corso (3/5)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J.K. Rowling (reread) (5/5)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (reread) (5/5)
Erotic Poems - E.E. Cummings (3/5)
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare (reread) (4/5)
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee (2/5)
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (reread) (4/5)
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Yet more amazing comics debuting at tomorrow’ Comic Arts Brooklyn show!
Roopert
August Lipp
Revival House
56 pages, 8.5″ X 11″ 2 color offset
$10
The long-awaited debut by comics virtuoso, August Lipp. Perhaps you’ve been fortunate to see glimpses of his work in esteemed anthologies such as Smoke Signals, for example. Now, one can evince the full dexterity of his talent with the exuberant saga, Roopert.
Roopert is excited to return to school after a summer of splendid adventures! His best chums will all be there: Clyve the shy badger, Benji the other, slightly shorter bear, Hannah the ballsy fox, Timothy the average frog, Clarissa the dentally-advantaged crocodile and many more. Hey, this school is a real ZOO! What kind of antics will they get up to when the bell rings and Miss Julienne the human’s 6th grade class begins? Irreverence and beastly nature are masked by overzealous displays of etiquette as the child animals struggle for agency in the face of less-than-responsible authority figures. Follow along as this comic meanders through Roopert’s first action-packed day of middle school! Adult supervision recommended.
published by Revival House Press!
Hot Dog Beach #4
by Lale Westvind
High octane slapstick adventure starring Mop and Fuzz, two ding dongs trying to make a buck on a strange gig that never ends.
“BIG BONERZ: A Street Dawgz Comic Collection”
by Lizz Lunney
This experimental comic tells the story of a group of canines that tackle depression, drug addiction and anger problems whilst roaming the streets and protecting their cardboard box home from outsiders. Lunney explores themes of fame/celebrity, mental health problems, class struggle, addiction and more through a pack of homeless street dogs. Lots of jokes! Lots of bones!
Published by Birdcage Bottom Books
5.25″ x 7.5″, 44 pages. $7
Two-color risograph cover with b+w interior
The Loud Atlas
By Peter + Maria Hoey
Our new accordion fold book takes a surreal and funny look at the noisy world imagined by
the Italian Futurists. Using the style of Marinetti and the rhyming pattern of Dr. Seuss.
8 panels and 45” inches long.
Screen printed in 2 colors and hand bound on black book board in an edition of 50.
DOMINO BOOKS
At CAB, we are proud to debut our ninth publication, BOOK OF DAZE by E.A. Bethea. Swing by table M3 to check it out—we will also have dozens and dozens of rare zines and art books available, many of them making their debut at the show.
If you can’t make it to CAB, BOOK OF DAZE is available for pre-order now through our online shop.
Book of Daze by E.A. Bethea. $6, 40 pages. Color cover, black and white interior, printed on newsprint.
“I first discovered Bethea’s stuff almost twenty years ago, she is one of the people whose work made me finally commit to comics as my medium of choice. With her barbed, nervous line and blunt writing style, she’s like a Duchampian voice calling for comics revolt. Her comics call out to us that no matter how damaged or how much of an outsider someone is, comics is our birthright.” -Josh Bayer, author of Theth
Book of Daze by E.A. Bethea is the kind of book DOMINO exists to publish. I first found Bethea’s work lying around an apartment I was visiting. I picked it up and from that moment on, have never forgotten it. As I began to read her dense pages, I was overwhelmed by the straightforward emotional statements and startlingly precise mind behind the sequences. In one moment, Bethea’s comics would acknowledge pain and disappointment, then turn to explain it away or justify things, only to finally confront the problem from a new angle. On the next page, simple pleasures became the focus, romantic notions embraced. Later on in the book cynical approaches to anything and everything were duly considered. All of this managed to congeal as Bethea kept another strong cloud hanging over it all: a refusal to shy away from an unashamed embrace of the full panorama of life.
Bethea, a simple interpretation might offer, chronicles the web of living in the world with a heart and a mind sometimes at odds and sometimes simpatico. But Bethea gives us something more complex: at times, the work feels dead-pan as it shifts from exhilaration to resignation without a change in visual presentation, but it’s here where we have a guide to the heart of Bethea’s project. The often uniform nature of the pages and the highly non-uniform nature of what is contained within become a catalog of days or weeks or years. One page offers a subdued period in life, while the next (seemingly) similar page offers a day full of regret. Bethea talks about her work relating to cinema, specifically calling attention to what happens between one of her panels and the next. The shifts in emotion and carefully chosen images alongside highly precise language feel like walking into a film where the entire crew–from director to actor to gaffer—united in one mind to make something highly exquisite.
The Unquotable Trump
by R. SIkoryak
(Drawn and Quarterly)
R. Sikoryak frames Trump and his declarations as the words and actions of the most notable villains and antagonists in comic book history.
The House of Dickinson
by R. Sikoryak
(self published)
This mini combines the poetry of Emily Dickinson with the atmosphere of 1950’s horror comics.
Futile Comics #6
Mike Centeno
A 16 page look at a day in the life of a woman who deals with subway abuse, retail hijinx, and gym bros until she reaches the breaking point and has no energy left to keep all the black goop of rage inside of her.
Precious Little Lives
By Joe Garber
This new American classic follows the melodramatic tragedies of a Tap n’ Scat Jazzist just trying to make her way in the world with a head full of dreams and a pocket full of toxic-male assholes.
Generous Consolation
Conor Stechschulte
In consolation for not having the third volume of Generous Bosom ready in time for CAB, this zine offers a preview of selected images from that book. Available on its own or for free with a preorder of GB3.
TRUMPTRUMP Volume 1: nomination to inauguration
by Warren Craghead III
Every day, Warren Craghead draws and shares grotesque portraits of Donald Trump and his minions. TRUMPTRUMP Volume 1 collects the first six months of these daily drawings with context and commentary, from when Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president on July 21, 2016 until his inauguration on January 20, 2017.
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Retrofit Comics
Bestiary
by Alden Viguilla
A collection of mythical beasts risographed in blue and gold.
Final form #1
By Craig Bowers
A fantasy about two friends trying to make quick cash so they can go travel the world and two frogs slacking on the job.
The 12 Days of Christmas
Caitlin Keegan
The 12 days of Christmas, illustrated. A holiday zine that you can color (or not.)
Twin Peaks poster
Caitlin Keegan
12×18″ poster featuring sketchbook drawings of characters from season 3.
Bronze Enamel Sun Pin
Caitlin Keegan
Bronze + enamel pin with reversible sun face (1.125″)
I’ll also have copies of The Illuminated Tarot, which came out in April.
So What? Press
Tales of the Night Watchman LLC
www.sowhatpress.com
Tales of the Night Watchman is the story of Nora, a blogger stuck working a dead end job in coffee, and her roommate, Charlie, who happens to be possessed (in the nicest way possible) by a spectral detective called The Night Watchman. Baristas by day, heroes by night, Nora and Charlie answer the call to fight the city’s never-ending flux of supernatural activity.
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Issue synopsis:
The Gowanus Golem is back! In this follow up to one of the series’ most popular tales, Brooklyn’s most toxic monster is after a couple thugs who are responsible for the death of a young boy. There’s only one problem: To stop him, The Night Watchman must protect one of the killers. Oh, and did we mention it’s also a Christmas special?
Written by Dave Kelly
Artwork by Brett Hobson
Colors by Clare DeZutti
Cover by Tim Hamilton
Over Time, Every Section Was Allowed To Grow Accordingly
Aaron Cockle, New York Is For Sale, Table J2
It’s part 1 of a 2-part Franz Kafka fan comic, 32 pages
Annie Mok Loves Videogames
by Annie Mok
A collection of comics, essays, and an interview, all about an abiding love and critique of games such as The Legend of Zelda, Shenmue, Sonic, and others. Annie Mok freelances for Rookie Mag, The Comics Journal, The Establishment, and others, and now makes games such as The Haunted Nintendo.
Keep Going
Greg Kletsel
32 page Risograph zine inspired by the phrase “keep going”.
Animation: Dansemorphia (on custom silicone USB’s !)
Zine: Frame Drain –
Roya Haroun
blurb- Danse! Morph! Ya!
Parasite Wanderer
By Connor McCann
A girl wakes up with a parasite attached to her face and the two embark on a bombastic and poetic 16 page adventure.
People of Oakland
Asuka Ohsawa
When I moved from Brooklyn to Oakland in 2014, in an attempt to get to know my new environment, I got into the habit of staring at people who caught my attention, memorizing their facial features, and drawing them at home. The book is a collection of some of those sketches.
Somewhere, Sometime
Asuka Ohsawa
After my dad passed away in 2016, I traveled to my childhood home in Japan often and dug through his material possessions. This experience triggered an avalanche of childhood memories that I hadn’t thought of for so many years. I decided to piece together bits and pieces of these memories in this book.
Slasher #5
by Charles Forsman
It’s all been leading to this. The final issue of Charles Forsman’s exploration into violence and sexuality. After the events of issue four, Christine lets herself indulge for the last time. From the creator of the E4/Netflix series The End of the F***ing World.
Live at the Grelman: #4 Amy Magick
By Vinnie Neuberg, AT Pratt, and Derek Timm-Brock
Live at the Grelman is a collaborative storytelling stand-up comedy comic strip. All strips are written and drawn in the order that they appear and nothing is preplanned. This issue features guest strips by Drew Miller, Disa Wallander, Lane Graff, Max Huffman, Kelsey Wroten, Haejin Park, Mikey Karpiel, and Michael Furler. 40pp
Touch
By Vinnie Neuberg
A new mini-comic about an online date gone awry in a Virtual Reality world. Each comic comes with a foldout poster. 24pp

False Advertising
By Dylan Balliett
False Advertising is a collection of recent illustrations, comic strips, and single panel gag comics by Dylan Balliett.
The Fishes’ Ball
By Priscilla Boatwright
A locket. A fisherman. A steed. The Fishes’ Ball is a short tale about a man who descends to the bottom of a lake in search of his beloved.
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